The City in the Ancient World

Mason Hammond

Published by Harvard University Press 1972

The City in the Ancient World

Mason Hammond

In collaboration with: Lester J. Bartson

Volume 4 in the series Harvard Studies in Urban History

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418387

Overview
Contents

About this book

The emergence of cities in the different regions of the ancient world presents two problems. First, in areas of common culture or at least of cultural contact, did the cities evolve independently, as phenomena of social, political, and economic growth, or did they emanate from a common center of origin? Second, how did the Greco–Roman city–state originate?

In considering these questions, Mason Hammond has limited the ancient world to the Middle and Near East, the Indus Valley, and the Mediterranean region. He takes geographical and economic factors into account as he treats the cities historically by areas, from their first development in Sumeraround 3200 B.C, to the end of the ancient world in the middle of the sixth century A.D.

Mr. Hammond concludes that the city’s evolution was a phenomenon of local social development but was also influenced by older cultures. The city–state, he shows, was a creation of the Greek genius. It was diffused throughout the Greco–Ronan world, and withered with the decline of ancient culture in the early Middle Ages.

The author provides brief geographical descriptions of the areas he covers. Thirteen maps give the locations of places referred to in the text. Where ancient and modern names differ markedly, both are given, in the text and in an index of the places shown on the maps. An extensive chronological survey and a general index document the text.

Author information

HammondMason:

Mason Hammond was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University.

Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	i
Contents Accessible Download PDF	vii
Preface Mason Hammond Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	xiii
I Introduction Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
II Definitions, Evidence, and Prehistoric Chronology Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	6
III Background to the Emergence of the City Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	13
IV Mesopotamia Early Technological and Social Progress Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	24
V Mesopotamia The City Emerges in Sumer Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	33
VI Mesopotamia From City to Empire Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	49
VII The Indus Valley A Dead End Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	57
VIII Egypt Civilization of Palaces, Temples, and Tombs Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	65
IX Canaan Cities of Commerce Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	77
X Anatolia Abortive Cities Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	93
XI The Aegean Civilization Palaces or Cities ? Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	107
XII The Indo-Europeans Tribesmen Urbanized Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	134
XIII Summary of the City before the Greeks Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	148
XIV Archaic Greece The Emergence of the City-State Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	155
XV Classical Greece Age of the City-State Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	175
XVI Hellenistic Territorial States Restriction and Spread of the City-State Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	196
XVII Greek and Roman City Design and Urban Planning Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	221
XVIII The City in Early Italy and the Rise of Rome Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	237
XIX Republican Rome Success and Failure as a City-State Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	261
XX The Early Roman Empire An Oecumenē of Free Cities under One Rule Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	279
XXI The Late Roman Empire Withering of the City-State Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	303
XXII The City in the Early Mediaeval West and in the Byzantine East Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	330
XXIII Recapitulation Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	346
CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	362
Chapter Bibliographies Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	388
Index to Bibliographies Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	550
Series List Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	581
Table of Coordination for Revised Cambridge Ancient History I. Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	591
Index of Places on the Maps Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	595
General Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	603

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1972
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 617
Illustrations
- Other: 13 maps
Keywords: Cities and towns, Ancient -- Bibliography.; Cities and towns, Ancient.; HISTORY / General

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674418387

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1972
ISBN: 9780674418363